Wild Card workshop participation Ellen Soderhult led by Jennifer Lacey and Wally Cardona based on their project "The Set Up"

In the frame of the Life Long Burning Wild Cards, CCN Montpellier (France) is offering the following to its Wild Card partner Cullberg Ballet (Sweden):
Participation in a workshop led by Jennifer Lacey and Wally Cardona based on their project "The Set Up"

The Set Up is a series of 8 full-length dances by Jennifer Lacey and Wally Cardona and 8 international masters of existent dance forms. Each dance displaces contemporary practice by living temporarily within a distinct tradition of mastery. Initiated in 2012, the development of the series is evolving over a 5-year long practice of “embodiment”, grounded in a pedagogical and performance-based process. The series’ construction is a recurring re-examination of habitual aesthetic valuations, both physical and conceptual. It is purposefully designed to confront belief systems that are knowingly, and unknowingly, transferred from body to body, culture to culture, generation to generation.

Choreographers Wally Cardona and Jennifer Lacey share an interest in undoing tendencies toward certainty in art. Five years ago, they started down a path of discussing/doing/dancing with non-dance-specialists, including an astrophysicist, a sommelier, a social activist, an architect, a medical supply salesman and others. The end result was TOOL IS LOOT (2010), made with composer Jonathan Bepler. They now continue this discussing/doing/dancing - around context, meaning, purpose, value and need – with dance experts, in The Set Up.

This workshop is part of the exerce MA program dedicated, for the two first months, to that issue : How do you prepare ?

This Wild Card covers:

-       Costs of international travel to Montpellier

-       Accomodations

-       Per diem

-       Educational cost

For a maximum of 2.500 euros all included. 

Cullberg Ballet chose the Swedish artist Ellen Söderhult for this slot.
View her experience report in the right column.